| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Lattice at Sunrise |
| | | Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–79) |
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| AS on my bed at dawn I mus’d and pray’d, | |
| I saw my lattice prank’d upon the wall, | |
| The flaunting leaves and flitting birds withal— | |
| A sunny phantom interlaced with shade; | |
| “Thanks be to heaven,” in happy mood I said, | 5 |
| “What sweeter aid my matins could befall | |
| Than the fair glory from the East hath made? | |
| What holy sleights hath God, the Lord of all, | |
| To bid us feel and see! we are not free | |
| To say we see not, for the glory comes | 10 |
| Nightly and daily, like the flowing sea; | |
| His lustre pierceth through the midnight glooms | |
| And, at prime hour, behold! He follows me | |
| With golden shadows to my secret rooms.” | |
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